Valerie Amos, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, announced Monday (August 13th) she will visit Syria and Lebanon to draw attention to the "deteriorating humanitarian situation", AFP reported.
According to a statement from the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, her visit is scheduled for August 14th-16th.
In Syria, Amos is expected to discuss "urgently scaling-up relief efforts and reducing the suffering of civilians caught up in the fighting with the Syrian authorities," the statement said.
She will also meet with families who fled from Syria and convene with government and humanitarian agencies in Lebanon.
Two million people are now estimated to have been affected by the Syria crisis, the UN reported. Over 140,000 people have crossed into Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq since the conflict started.
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محمد
2012-8-15
Criminal Bashar, his soldiers and his supporters have used all the means to deter the protesters and those who refuse his rule. Thus, they have succeeded in changing nothing but to emphasize the determination, the unity and the stability in order to fulfill the objective which consists in the overthrow of an oppressive and criminal regime. Thus, they have used all the heavy and light weapons, the forbidden ones and gases and opted for murder which has affected everyone including new born children, mothers, the elderly and the youth without exception. Unfortunately, people can do nothing except pray and raise money. In fact, they believe that Allah the Almighty will reverse the balance because He has forbidden injustice, murder, oppression, cruelty, mutilation and all kinds of aggression. Allah the Almighty is the wisest.
عبد الستار
2012-8-15
If we calculate the number of martyrs and victims in Syria after starting work with the Annan plan, we would find that they exceed the number of those who were murdered before, as if this ill-fated plan has become a cover for all the crimes of the Assad regime and allows all his madness. Today, it has become no longer acceptable at all to continue keeping silent, given that the blood which has been shed must be taken into consideration and revenge taken on the murderers who have continued to kill without finding anyone who holds them accountable. The lives which have been claimed are also waiting for honest people to retaliate against those who have unfairly legitimized their lives unjustly and unfairly. Unfortunately, it seems that the international organization and its international envoy are unable to face injustice or may not be worthy of being custodians of the concepts of freedom, justice and equality suggested by the free world. In fact, we are today facing a real test of the credibility of the slogans of the free world, and the Syrian territory is the initial place for this test in which the world may pass or fail.